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The Baltimore Bandits played in the American Hockey League from 1995 to 1997. They were a farm team of the National Hockey League's Anaheim Mighty Ducks. In 1997, the team moved to Cincinnati, where they adopted the parent club's nickname, Mighty Ducks.??

Baltimore joined the Eastern Hockey League in 1979 as the Clippers. The team moved to the Atlantic Coast Hockey League in 1981 and changed their name to the Skipjacks. In 1982, they moved up to the American Hockey League. In 1993, they moved to...

The Baltimore Clippers played in the American Hockey League (AHL) from 1962 until 1976 and the Southern Hockey League for one season, 1976-77. Their home was the Baltimore Civic Center.

WHFS was an alternative rock station serving both Baltimore and Washington D.C. Founded on November 11, 1961, the station, from the start, was quite adventurous in its music programming, settling into a progressive rock format in the late '60s. In 1983, the station switched...

They'll be buzzin' around the bases and the ball park this spring! Cicadas are winged insects, known for the songs sung by most, but not all, males of the species. They are better known for their swarming behavior which occurs every 13 to 17...

They'll be buzzin' around the bases and the ball park this spring! Cicadas are winged insects, known for the songs sung by most, but not all, males of the species. They are better known for their swarming behavior which occurs every 13 to 17...

Remember this championship team? When the Canadian Football League (CFL) decided to add teams in the U.S. in the early 1990s, Jim Speros acquired one for Baltimore. Abandoned by the NFL Colts in 1984, and passed over for expansion in 1993 when the Bombers...

The city's almost NFL team in 1995. Abandoned by the Colts in the middle of the night in 1984, Baltimore tried for years to either lure an existing team to town or get an expansion team. In 1993, the city came close to the...

Previously the Michigan Stags, on January 18, 1975, this World Hockey Association??franchise moved to Baltimore lasting but one season as the Baltimore Blades.

Burger Chef was a fast-food hamburger chain that started in Indianapolis in 1958. At its peak in the mid 1970s, it was second only to McDonald's in the number of nationwide locations. The chain even made inroads into Canada. In 1982, the chain was sold...

The Baltimore Blast were members of the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) from 1980 to 1992. The team was founded as the Houston Summit, charter members of the MISL in 1978.?? The made the playoffs in 11 of their 12 seasons, winning the championship...

The Baltimore Hustlers were the relocated Memphis Sounds and were scheduled to play in the American Basketball Association in 1975. Shortly after the team's new nickname was announced it was changed to the Claws in response to local opposition as well as pressure from...

The Baltimore Claws were the relocated Memphis Sounds and were scheduled to play in the American Basketball Association in 1975. At first, the team was named the Hustlers but local opposition as well as pressure from the league necessitated a change. The team played...

Waxie Maxie's was a chain of record stores in the DC area founded in 1938 by Max Silverman. At its peak in the 90s, it had nearly 40 stores. The end came at the turn of the century as the end of the CD...

Waxie Maxie's was a chain of record stores in the DC area founded in 1938 by Max Silverman. At its peak in the 90s, it had nearly 40 stores. The end came at the turn of the century as the end of the CD...

The Bell System was a network of telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), that dominated telephone service in North America for over a century. It was formed in 1877 and broken up on anti-trust grounds in 1983. Colloquially, the system...

The Baltimore Skipjacks were a minor league ice hockey team and was renamed from the Clippers to Skipjacks in 1981. The Skipjacks went on to play the following season in the Atlantic Coast Hockey League and continued played after for eleven seasons as members of the American Hockey League (AHL), from 1982...

This Baltimore Skipjacks design features the inaugural Skipjacks logo used in the 1981–82 season while they were in the Atlantic Coast Hockey League. OS16152

Chicken George was a fast food restaurant chain based in Baltimore, Maryland, created by Theodore Holmes in November 1979 in the Mondawmin Mall in Baltimore.  OS16195

The Washington Wave were a member of the Eagle Pro Box Lacrosse League and the Major Indoor Lacrosse League from 1987 to 1989.  OS16587